The futures contracts are pointing of a slight increase at the opening of the stock markets on Wall Street ahead of a speech by Federal Reserve Chairman Janet Yellen at the University of Baltimore.
Market News Briefing – December 19th 2016 11:55 (GMT+1)
German business confidence at the height of 3 years
Business confidence index IFO institute’s biggest economy in the Euro zone rose in December to 111 points, compared to 110.4 points last month.
This is the highest level of the index since February 2014.
The economists forecast was to more moderate increase in the index to 110.5 points.
Market News Briefing – December 19th 2016 08:45 (GMT+1)
Japan’s exports in November rose with the weakening of the Japanes yen and rising demand in markets outside Japan.
According to Japan’s Ministry of Economy, the exports in November rose by 7.4% compared with the same month last year, and decreased by 1.4% compared to the previous month.
Market News Briefing – December 19th 2016 08:30 (GMT+1)
The European stock markets trading is conducted with price declines.
The FTSE withdrew from a seven-week peak and down 0.3%, the DAX trading unchanged, and the CAC decreasing by 0.4%.
Market News Briefing – December 19th 2016 07:30 (GMT+1)
The oil prices rise today in light of the cessation of oil supplies from Libya.
The WTI oil is rising by 0.6% to 52.2 US dollar per barrel and the Brent oil rising by 0.4% to 55.4 US dollar per barrel.
Market News Briefing – December 19th 2016 07:00 (GMT+1)
Asian trade is conducted with price declines on a background of tensions between China and the United States.
On Friday China seized an unmanned submarine of the US Navy in the South China Sea.
Market News Briefing – December 16th 2016 13:00 (GMT+1)
Wall Street doesn’t stop.
The Dow Jones is expected to continue to approach today to 20,000 points, while the futures contracts on indices on Wall Street signaled a rise of 0.2% with the opening of the trading today.
Market News Briefing – December 16th 2016 12:00 (GMT+1)
The Euro falling to a low of 13 years against the US dollar and is trading around the 1.04 level.
Market News Briefing – December 16th 2016 11:45 (GMT+1)
The last trading day of the week takes place on the European continent is of a mixed trend.
The CPI in the EU recorded a reading of 0.6% in line with expectations of economists.
Market News Briefing – December 16th 2016 11:30 (GMT+1)
According to the IFO Institute’s figure in Germany, the German economic growth will be stronger than expected in the fourth quarter.
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